From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:27:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git alias and --help
Message-ID: <m31utx5js7.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <j8ds01$fc7$1@dough.gmane.org>

Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> Another small detail:
> 
> Let's assume I have following alias:
> 
> log = log --name-status
> 
> 
> In this case I directly get the help text for git log
> if I typed 'git log --help' (or 'git help log').
> I don't even see, that my log is in reality aliased.

That is because it doesn't work: git does not allow for aliasing its
built-in commands.

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Jakub Narębski